While our best people Darksaber and W1zzard are at Computex 2008 gathering info and pics for you, I'll be reporting everything else that's not covered by the event. First of all, I'll start with some info leaked yesterday before the official start of Computex. ASUS has confirmed the official specs for their ASUS Eee Box desktop PC. Take a look below.

Most people have widescreens these days, so its a little strange to see that missing.
It has DVI out, so its compatible with HDMI through an adaptor.. would have been a great media/net PC to hook up to a TV.

I am curious, can the hardware play 1080p ? Even if it suported the resolution.
Feel free to ignore this rant, but maybe they dont want to cut into the HTPC market with something as cheap as this... wouldnt be a good business decision

Edit: According to ppl on forums, one 2200-2400Mhz core would be required for 720p, 3000Mhz is "optimum" for 1080p. (on windows xp, linux being more resource friendly)
The rest of the hardware should be fine however.

Maybe the next generation eee Box will have the dual-core Atom and (better) support for HD.

Most people have widescreens these days, so its a little strange to see that missing.
It has DVI out, so its compatible with HDMI through an adaptor.. would have been a great media/net PC to hook up to a TV.

well... my 2GHz P4 manages 720P fine with no hardware acceleration, and a sempron 2400+ can do it with room to spare.

If they had the model up for the onboard video, intels specs say that it can decode 1080p (the GMA x3100)... i just wonder why they didnt raise the price a few $$ and make it a media box while they were at it.

well... my 2GHz P4 manages 720P fine with no hardware acceleration, and a sempron 2400+ can do it with room to spare.

If they had the model up for the onboard video, intels specs say that it can decode 1080p (the GMA x3100)... i just wonder why they didnt raise the price a few $$ and make it a media box while they were at it.

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I've heard of 1.6Ghz processors that can play fine 720p on linux, but they drop frames now and then. (2.2Ghz+ should be the 0 frames dropped zone,) I guess, depends on many things realy, like using bloated os/software or bad decoder.

well... my 2GHz P4 manages 720P fine with no hardware acceleration, and a sempron 2400+ can do it with room to spare.

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interesting

If they had the model up for the onboard video, intels specs say that it can decode 1080p (the GMA x3100)... i just wonder why they didnt raise the price a few $$ and make it a media box while they were at it.

software codecs have just come a long way since it first came out. I remember when i first started getting 720p media, and a 3800+ x2 dual core was the requirement... hell i get a solid 5 FPS with smooth audio on my P3 1GHz laptop (yes 5 FPS... it cant hack it. but it does 'work')

software codecs have just come a long way since it first came out. I remember when i first started getting 720p media, and a 3800+ x2 dual core was the requirement... hell i get a solid 5 FPS with smooth audio on my P3 1GHz laptop (yes 5 FPS... it cant hack it. but it does 'work')

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that is for sure. i was just talking to a friend about AVCHD and how awesome it is that you can rip a blu-ray down to a dvd5 using x264 and AVC and then play it back on a blu-ray player. and it looks really good! what divx did for dvd is what avchd is going to do for blu-ray.

They aren't aiming this at HD people. This is a super low cost PC just like the EeePC that is designed for basic internet and office work. I would think 720p content might be watchable on it, but 1080p is out of the question.

They aren't aiming this at HD people. This is a super low cost PC just like the EeePC that is designed for basic internet and office work. I would think 720p content might be watchable on it, but 1080p is out of the question.

Here is an interesting thing I just came accross, the specs for the GMA950 say it's maximum resolution is 2048x1536 at 75 Hz. So why is ASUS stating lower? My guess is that he Linux driver for it is limitted to that resolution, but that is only my guess. Anyway, it also says it supports 480i/p, 720i/p, and 1080i/p.

The EeePC can play back 1080p content, but it stutters. This machine's graphics card is more powerful than the one in the EeePC from what I have seen, so 1080p content just might be possible.